Locomotive, Volume 46, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1858 — Page 1

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XIII3 OLD PlUNTiill. A Fancy Sketch, but. too near tht Truth to make fun of it. BY B. P. eillLUBER. " ' , I see liim al his case, With his anxious, cheerless face, ! . Worn and brown ; And the types' unceasing: click, , . As they drop within his stick, Seems of life's old clock the tick, Ku lining down. . - I've known him many a year, Thutold typo, bent and queer Boy and man ; Time was when stop elate . Distinguished hlsguit, 7 i And his form was tull and straight, . . ' ' - We now scan. ' ' i , I've marked hhn, day by day, As he passed along the way To his toil; He's labored might mid main, A living si-ant to gain, ( And some interest small uttaiu 'In the soil. And hope was bright at first, A nd the golden cheat he nursed, Till be found That hope was but a glare In a cold and frosty uir, And the promise pictured fair, Barren ground. Ha ne'er was reckoned bad, - Hut Pve seen him smile right glad f i At fct leaded" woes, While a dark and lowering frown . Would spread his features round, 1 Where virtue's praise did sound, If 'twere "eose." Long years he's labored on, . , ,s .... And the rosy huesare gone From his sky ; r, . , Kor others are bis hours, . . ' Y For others arc his powers I . , . His days, uncheered by flowers, : Flitting by. , You may see him, night by night, ; ; . it. By the lamn's dull, dreamy light, . ;: i i i, Standing there; With cobweb curtain's spread , , . , In festoons o'er his head, 1 That sooty showers shed : 1 In his bair. ; And when the waning moon ' 1 " Proclaims of night the noon. If you roam, ' - , . .. You may see him, weak, and frail, In motion like the snail, . ' " '- Wending home. i 1 v ' ' ' u , -, Y ; His form by years is bent, 'To his hair a tinge is lent Sadly gray ; And his U'eth have long decayed, t -: A nd his eyes thoir trust botrayod ' ' Great havoc time has made With his clay I ' But soon will come the day .: . When form will passaway' 1 '' From our view. - : . ' , ! 'And the spot shall know no more ' ' The sorrows that be bore, ' Cr the disappointments sore , That he knew.. JOE CHICKWEED'S COURTSHIP, AND HOW HE WAS CUT OUT. BY LOUIS N. BURDICK. . . "I vow V said Joe Chiokweed, as he stood before the parlor mirror, putting the last touches to his well oiled hair, "if I let this night pass without findinjr out just how I stand with Malinda Martin, then I'm a cow. ihe critter s always acted so pesky skittish there s been no getting around her. I like her and she knows it, and I'm inclined to thiuk she likes me ; but she likes more than one string to her bow, and I ain't sure but she'd slip me any minute if she could make a better bargin. Maybe I'm doing her an injustice, and I hope I am ; but she acts sometimes 'tarnally like a real coquette, and I don't know what to make of her. . But to-night," he aded, fitting an immensely high and an immonailv wirlo Hnmofl liar, nn lina slimlnnr ViAarl. litrt night I'll settle the matter I'll cross the llubicon, if 1 get my boots tull ot water. Maimaa ain't got a baa speck and I might do worse most anywhere else." : "Do tell if its come to that!" exclaimed old Mrs. Chickweed, who had entered the room, unnoticed by her son, in time to hear his last sentence "well, I've all along had a notion that you was aimin' in that ere direction." ; Joe turned red from his eye-winkers to his ankles, and looked very sheepish. He worked very busily too, for a few seconds, with brushin some imaginary dust from a place between the shoulders of his coat, which, he coudn't reach, but he said nothing. "There ain't nothing to be ashamed on, Joe," con tinued the loquacious old lady, apparently greatly pleased at making the discovery she had, "and -you spoke the truth when you said you might do worse elsewhare. Malinda's a nice gal." : ,0 " ." ' '.'Well," said Joe gaining some courage from his mothers manner, Tin glad you think so, for 1 in bound to make her my wife, if " ' ' "If what," asked the old lady,' ' ' , ' . ' "If everythina's favorable." "Dont you" fear anything's agin it. You just do your duty Joe, and Malinda's yourn. Remember the farm." "It is a fine farm, no mistake !" said Joe earnestly, "No better farm in the whole country, than the Widder Martins !" said Mrs. Chickweed, in an em phatic tone. "No, I think not." . "And then see how it is stocked; two yoke of the best steers in these parts, besides their two horses : sayin' nothing of the rest of the critters. And, of course they'll all go with Mehnda when the widder s dead, and before, too, for you will go right on to the farm as soon as you marry and take charge of every thing. -... "It's a good opening, that's a fact," said Joe : but I put a higher value on Melinaa than the property. "And well you should; though tle farm and fixen's am t to be despised. "Oh, I ain't oiie to despise them." Joe laughed and left the room, and soon after he left the house, and made his way as expeditiously as the gloom would permit, towards the residence of the Widow Martin. . A light was burning in the front room, but the window curtains were closely drawn, so that he could not get a view into the apartment as he passed along the yard. He knocked at the door and was admitted by the widow in person, who, after in quiring benevolently after his health, ushered him m to the parlor. It was already occupied by two persons Melinda and Ileuben bparks, the latter a young man, who re cently returned to Springfield from California, and who was looked upon with special disfavor by the young farmer. Joe was welcomed by the young lady, not so cordial ly as formerly, and by no means as cordially as Joe thought his due. Ho was greeted bv Mr. Sparks in a sort of Joking, condesending way, that raised the fire inwardly. However the conversation that followed was apparently agreeable to all parties, and the even ing wore away till the widow retired, when Mr. Sparks intimated that it was perhapis time for him to be re turning, as it was quite a little walk to the villase, Melinda at once asserted tliat it was very early indeed, and he should not think of leaveng so soon; whereupon Mr. Sparks was induced to remain a while longer, and Mr. Chickweed was secretly enraged that Melinda should be so taken up with the company of a young sprig. California became the topic of conversation, and Reuben Sparks shown brilliantly in his descriptive accounts ot the country, and what he had done there

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"Then you weren't in the diggin's?" inquired Joe, in response to something his rival had uttered. "By no means," replied Sparks, loftily. "I left digging to those that were used to it I hadent a taste that way." "Oh, then you stopped in town ?" "Certiainly." .- "Business, I spose, first rate there?" ? -.-'' "Yes, sir. A young man of good talent will soon engage himself in profitabe employment." "Then I spect you must have done extraordinary well!" said Joe, in a tone ho intended should be sarcastic. ... "Oh!" replied Sparks, laughing in a meaning way, and winking with one eye at the young lad', who appeared to 'take' and enjoy it accordingly "as for the matter I don't complain. I think I improved my chances I rather think I did. No, I dont complain by no means." . "Then why didn't you stay longer ? You weren't gone but a short time ; you should liavo stayed a year or two longer, and made yourself indipendent." 1 "Perhaps I am indipendent already ; I say perhaps. Of course can't tell you the exact amount I made : that, I think, is quite unnecessary." , ' "uii quite. "And perhaps, too, there were attractions in this part of the world as alluring as gold." , He looked knowingly at Mehnda as he spoke and gave her another wink, which she seemed to relish, though she blushed and appeared wonderfully embarrassed for a moment. Joe noticed what occurred, and didn't at all fancy the course affairs seemed setting. He knew that he should feel and appear peculiarly savage, if he rcmaind much longer, and so he hinted that it was about time for him to be going and what served to enrage him more than aught else, Melinda apeared to be of the some mind, for she offered no objection. So he took his hat and departed, with firmness in his step and bitterness in his heart. "I don't like the looks of things at all," he muttered to himself, as he walked on through the dark ; "she's altogether too tender with that chap to be ogrcable to me. JS he has not turned her head, then there's a mistake sorncwhare. . I don't believe he has brought money enough from California to buy a rope to hang him.. lie's after the widders farm, now, to make it up, I'll bet my hat. Yes, sir, he means to catch Melinda, and I've been fool enough to wait till tliis time before coining to a final point, But perhaps it ain't too late yet !" ho added after a few moment's reflection ; "maybe she'll consent to have me yet, if I loose no time in asking her. I'll try it, I vow I will. I'll go over again to-morrow, and have the thing settled." And having come to this conclusion, he hurried forward, and soon after was dreaming of Malinda Martin, the widow, himself, and an infinite number of Reuben Sparkses, who wore endeavoring to chase him up a steep hill and beat his brains out with bars of Califomia gold.' ! " -.' ' .. Mrs. Chickweed was most anxious next morning to learn from her son the result of his missiom to the widow's, but Joe was silent and pensive, avoiding his mother's eye and keeping away from the house as much as possible.; Late in the evening he carefully dressed himself in his best suit, and with a look of determination stamped upon his features, he once more set out to visit the fickle Melinda. . He found her at home and alone. "Hope you sjei'A an agreable evening yesterday," remarked Joe, after he had passed the usual compliments, and seated himself near the young lady. i "Oh, yes, I did I assure you," was the reply. "Mr. Sparks, I should say, is a very entertaining young man. Joe didn't think anything of the kind, but quite the contrary. "Heas, indeed," responded Melinda. : ' . Joe looked anything but pleased at this encomium on his rival, and sat tor some moments in utter silence. At length he turned to the young lady and spoke: "I came here last evening," he said "with the intention of speaking to you on a particular subject, but I found you so engaged that J determined to call again to-night, and so so " "Here you are," said Melinda, laughing at his embarrasment. "Yes here I am. And now that I am here I'll tell you what I have come for. You know I love you. I've told you so more'n once, and I've flattered myself that I weren't indifferent to you. But now I wish you to tell me if you really love me in return, and if I may hope to make you my wife. . Will you marry me?" ...... ' Joe, having arived at this important question, looked tenderly and appealingbf into her face, and breathlessly awaited her reply. She colored slightly, and bent her eyes to the ground. . - "You are quite right," she said "in supposing that you are not indifferent to me, for I regard you very highly." "Then all my fears are groundles!" uttered Joe exultingly. ' "But," continued the lady, "I cannot very well grant your wish regarding " "What!" cried Joe, his countenance suddenly changing. : ! "I cannot very well marry you !" ' ! "And why can't you? I'd like to know what's to hinder your marrying me if you think enough of me." "There is one particular reason." , ' "Whatisit?" . . .. ; ' "I'm engaged to another!" Joe turned pale. ' "Sparks!" he cried "tell me is it Reuben Sparks?" "Well and if it is !" "I knew it!" Blast him, I knew what he was after!" "I don't know that Mr. Sparks has acted in any way that he should not" remarked the young lady warmly. . . ' "He's a cheatin' villain f replied Joe indignantly. "You don't know him; he's nothing of the kindl" "It's you that don't know him; But you will before Jong. I've been deceived, and I ain't afraid to say so!" continued he, snatching up his hat; "it's the money he pretends to have that's lost me a wife; but when yon want to touch it, just like as not you won't be able. . He rushed from the house as he uttered these words, and hurried homeward. He found his old mother still up, and was eagerly interrogated by her as to the luck he had met with. Ho told her all, and little condo lence was she enabled to offer him in return. . For two or three days following, Joe Chickweed said very little but he thought much. One morning he met his mother with a smiling face and a sort of triumph in his look. The old lady was somewhat sur prised at the sudden change in her son's manner. ''Why what on airth's the matter now, Joe?" said she ; "hope you ain't goin to go crazy." "Not by a long shot," replied Joe ; "I ain't quite so big a tool. "Then what ails you ?" " Oh, I've got it all arranged at last I've got 'em now. "Who? What?" "Why Melinda and that vagabond Reuben Sparks ha ! ha ! I'll surprise him." "How are you going to do it ?" "Oh, it's all right !" said Joe, laughingly "I'll do it darned if I don't- I'll fix that sneaking critter !" " But how Jtow, Joe ? Can't you speak out ? What's got in the boy ?" cried the old lady, dying with curiosity to know what was his plan. "Well, now, I'll tell you all alxmt it," began Joe, assuming a more sober and quiet tone. "Well, I wish you would."

"You know the old widder has always been in favor of my keeping company with Melinda ?" "Well?" "And I believe she isdesp'rate down on that fellow, Sparks, coming into her family." ' ; "Yes." - "In that case she wouldn't very willingly let her property go into his hands." "But, 'cording to the will of old Mr. Martin, the

property am t to go out ot her hands till she is uean ".Ju st so but Sparks would have all thclbenefit. And now I'm coming to the point it's just there I'm going to lloor Reuben bparks. . "Well, do let me hear !" ' "The widder Martin herself ain't a bad looking woman!" Joe remarked, in a sort of a mysterious tone of voice, looking up suddenly into his mother's face. . .. . "No what's that to do with the matter?" replied the old lady. '' "And she ain't very old neither," continued he, with the same nir. . - "Why, she can't be mor'n forty." "So I should think; and she has a good chance of living forty more. "Well, and what ot it ?" "Just this," said Joe, leaning over to reach his mother's ear I U marry ihe widder I" . Mrs. Chickweed, expecting as she was, something startling, wasn't prepared for this. She uttered an exclamation of unbounded surprise, started from her seat, and then sank back and fixed her eyes with a vacant stare upon her son's face. . "Well," said Joe, "I hope you don't see anything agin it V" "No no !" stammered Ii'ib mother, recovering somewhat, from the shock she had received ; " but are you really in airnest, Joe will you marry the widder?" . . "To be sure I will, and that's the whole of it. I'm going up to see her this very day. . I'll marry her if she'll have me, and be revenged on Melinda for cuttin me as she has tor that blasted Sparks. I'll teach 'em what's what." ' , , . Joe was as good as his word. He sought the widow and made his proposal. Slio more astonished than she knew how to express, but she was more gratified than astonished. . Fresh and fair as she was, considering her years, she had never given over the idea of winning another husband ; but it had never entered her head that she could possibly procure so young and estimable a prize as Joe Chickweed. ' Joe made it a special proviso in his proposal, that they should be married privately the day before the marriage of Sparks with the widow's daughter, and it should be kept a secret till the wedding had taken place. To this the widow readily agreed, although it was a hard task for her to restrain the enjoyment she experienced, and prevent the secret being discovered. : .. .... .- r ' , Tho evening before the nuptials of Sparks and Melinda at length arrived, and all the preparations for the ceremony on the ensuing day were completed. When darkness had fairly set in, while Melinda was so occupied with the company and conversation of her soon-to-be husband as to be completely oblivious to all else, Mj-s. Martin cautiously left the house, and meeting Joe near at hand, she hastened with him to the residence of the Chickweeds. The minister, who had been duly admonished to secrecy, was in attendance ; and in less than half an hour thereafter," Joe was a married man, and the no longer widow was on her way to the house parting from Joe with a single but, enormous kiss, with which he was content to satisfy himself, considering what was to follow from so doing on the morrow. The wedding passed off next day to tho entire satisfaction of all parties. The affair took place in the morning at the residence of the bride, and at the hour of noon all the guests, with the exception of Joe Chickweed, departed. W iiy he remained so long it puzzled the newly, married pair to surmise, as they had not supposed he would be present at all. Joe took it very easily, however, and seemed quite unembarrassed by me occasional Danrenng oi ine nappy sparks. "1 s pose, said Joe, addressing himself to the newly made husband, as they were assembled in the parlor together "I s'pose you'll take up your residence in the village right away buy you a nice house and live fashionably!" " Oh, no, replied Mr. bparks "don t know as I shall." "What ! well, now, I calculate you don't have any idea of settling on a farm ? you ain't used to that work, you know." ' ' "Don t know as 1 may, said bparks, assuming a careless air and tone; "coming on hot weather, you know, and living in town is a perfect bore in summer. Yes, think I shall try country for a while ; I ain't in the best health, and a farm life may improve me." "Well," responded Joe, deliberately, "can't say that I'm sorry you're going to stay with us. I think myself that it would be to your benefit to work on a farm for a while ; and we'll try to make it as comfortable for you as we can!" . bparks looked at him ; then they looked at each other and laughed. .. : - ; : No doubt, remarked Mr. bparks, "you will make a very agreeable neighbor very agreeable in deed. "Oh, we'll be nearer than neighbors, a good sicht of course we will," said Joe, glancing with a look of intelligence toward the former widow. Again Mr. and Mrs. Sparks glanced at one another, but didn't laugh. " What do you mean ?" they asked simultaneously. "Oh excuse mo ; I forgot that you didn't know what transpired. The fact is, the widow, here, and myself, taking a mutual liking to each other were married last night 1 We should have invited you to the wedding, but we knew you were so engaged " " What ! married ?" cried Air. Sparks, springing to his feet, while a look of horror overspread his features. His wife sat pale as a ghost, and utterly unable to speak a word. "Certainly married," taid Joe, coolly. " Is this so ? " he inquired, turning to tho late widow. "You may rely upon all he says," she replied. "Then I have been swindled imposed upon deceived ! And you knew of this also, and led me on ?" he continued, in a violent tone, addressing his wife. "You worked to get me, while this infernal cheat gets all the property I "No it's not so 1" exclaimed Melinda, bursting into tears : "I knew nothing of it. And I thought you married me for myself, and not for money you pretended to have enough of that yourself!" Reuben Sparks smiled a sickly and a scornful smile. "It's even as I thought; his money's so deep in the bank that he never'ill be able to dig it out," remarked Joe. . . "You scheming rascal," gasped Sparks,looking as if it would be a pleasure to eat him entirely up, body and bones. "O, fire away! it don't hurt any; and I've got a long lease on the farm " - "You scoundrel 1", r "And the horses, and the steers " "Oh I you miserable cheat !" "And the fixen's generally " . "Fool!" "And moreover," continued Joe, assuming a more sober and stern tone, and grasping Sparks firmly by the collar as he spoke "among other tilings I've got a word or two of advice for you. v You married Mehn

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da in the expectation of stepping into a snug little property, palming yourself off as a man of means to accomplish your end. You are the real schemer, but a part of your scheme has failed. Take my advice and it will be well with you ; use your wife as you know you should go to work like a man and strive to be an honest one. And, finally, don't let mo hear you make use of any more such expressions as you just now bestowed upon me, or I'll thrash you within an inch of your life! Remembor," added Joe, giving him a shake, as a terrier would a rat, "you're my son now, 'cording to law, and you must have a slight show of respect for your father 1" . Reuben Sparks seemed to come at once to his senses, and after a little reflection concluded that the advice he had received was, upon the whole, tho best he could act upon; and for many a year thereafter Joo Chickweed looked upon him as a most valuable assistant. for the Locomotive. ' ' HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS. ' Friend Elder : Except it may be during tho prevalence of epidemics, the health of New Orleans will, certainly, compare favorably with that of any other city on the continent. ' I have now been residing in this place for nearly ten years, including the Summers, and during that tiino have watched carefully, the weekly mortality reports, and have frequently compared these, with the reports of corresponding periods m other cities of the Union; and npon the result of these comparisons, have been led to the opinion which I have expressed in tho beginning of this communication. The mortality for the week ending this moning, (27th of July,) has been greater than any other week within the past year; the number of deaths being 187; of these, 25 are said to bo of Yellow Fever, and 19 from Consumption ; leaving for casualties, and the ordinary cases of disease and death 143. In regard to the yellow fever, I must be permitted to say, lrom actual personal observation, that the accounts of it in New Orleans, which I occasionally see in papers published at a distance, are certainly, to say the least, very highly colored. ' What little there is, at present, is confined chiefly to the Shipping, and is of an exceedingly mild form, much more easily managed than tho Autumnal Billious Remittants of your own city, and of Central Indiana. I have just returned to my office, from a visit to the Fever Wards of that truly magnificent and noble establishment, the Chari ilg Hospitid of N. Orleans. I saw quite a number of cases of what was called yellow fever, a few of these had a slight orange tinged complexion, with the usual enlargement of the eyes, severe pain in the head, limbs &c., ; But if I had been diagnosing, I should have placed one half of these cases in the catalogue of ordinary Inllious Fever, with its usual complications -, and should have treated them according to tho common indications of cure, in such cases, with the expectation of saving the most, if not all of them; and 1 am quite sure, if some of your most experienced and. intelligent l'hysicans Mears, Dunlap, Bobbs,' Parry, and others, had been with me, they would have been quite surprised to learn that these cases, the most of them at least, should have been regarded as yellow fever cases so unlike; in their appearance, the ordinary descriptions of tliis disease as found in the books. And still, if any of them die, as they most probably will, they will swell the list of "deaths from Yellow Fever." I am quite well satisfied that there is, either a great want of careful and correct diagnosing, on the part of hospital Physicians, or a high degree of carelessness, in calling certain cases yellow fever, which are manifestly of an ordinary type of disease. A mistake in diagnosis, of course, leads to a mistake in therapeutics, and a mistake here, must necessarily prove fatal in many cases. 1 Physicians were more careful in regard to this subject calling things by their right name, and if the citizens of New Orleans, who are even well acclimated, would more generally remain at home during the (summer beason, and not countenance tne false impressions which exist abroad, in regard to the health of the city, by seeming to run away from disease, it would certainly be better for all concerned, and much more creditable to the "Fashionable," and this beautiful city would not be annually so sadly "wounded in the house of its friends." A very great change in the professional mind in this city, seems to have occurred in regad to the treatment of Yellow Fever. The former plan of relying upon heroic doses ot Calomel & Quinine, and copius general bleeding, has to a great extent given place to a more humane and rational oue, of mild Cathartics, Diaphoretics, occasional Cupping, the free use of mustard baths, orange leaf tea, and good nursing. And indeed, upon the latter, in the majority of cases, chief value is placed; as you may infer from the following remarks, which were made to me by one of the most experienced, and prominent members of the profession. "I am not certain," said he, "whether as many patients would not recover, if left to the care of experienced nurses, as now get well with all the medical aid which is brought into requisition."-And only a few days since, a very intelligent and benevolent gentleman, a member of the "Howard Association," remarked to me that in his opinion, "with good nursing, the city would have fared just as well in 1853, so far as yellow fever was concerned, if there had not been a Physician in it." And these remarks were not made in a captious spirit by any means, nor with a view of disparaging the profession of this city, far from it, for it may oe safely affirmed, that a more highly educated, intelligent, and honorable set of gentlemen are not to bo found in any portion of the United States, than the profession of New Orleans can produce. But they were only meant to convey the idea, that certain constitutions, under the mildest form of treatment, will almost invariably rally, and throw of the disease, whilst, in certain other constitutions, and conditions of the system, the cases will almost as invariably succumb to the disease, and prove fatal,, despite every effort on the part of medical attendants. I have seen several cases within a few hours, which will doubtless, illustrate the truth of the opinion; some will recover in a few days, others will die in a few hours. Among the prominent causes of the sickness which now prevails in the city and of the fever, especially are exposure to the excessive heat of the days, and the cool and damp atmosphere of the night;' and imprudence in the use of certain articles of food and drink. . . The Southern people have not yet learned to live chiefly, particularly during the warm season, on that kind of food fruits and vegetables, wihch nature has so abundently produced them, and which are so admirablyadapted to the formation of health and comfort in this climate. They will eat too much rich food, and indulge in too great a variety of meals, and wines, which will necessarily excite the circulation, and increase the an-, imal heat to such an extent as inevitably to produce disease. f But as the old adage goes "if people will dance they must pay for the music" "as for me and my house" we try to keep cool, and live plain, and the result is we keep well, and glad of it. If any thing of general interest, should occur in the city, and especially in regard to yellow fever, you shall hear from me again. With my best wishes for your health and prosperity, I will close this long epistle. 1 ' J. b. H. New Orleans July 27th 1858. - It may seem strange, but it is a fact, that men generally are much more afraid of women, than women are of men; and fearing to "break the ice" is a fruitful cause of old bachelorism.